This is the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Fast Forward The Holocaust wasn’t fueled by antisemitism, Hitler hated Jews for their money, says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Speaking at a conference, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced an antisemitic justification for Hitler and the Nazis
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Fast Forward 98-year-old German man charged with accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp
Because he was under 21 years old at the time of the crimes, the suspect is being charged under juvenile criminal law
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Fast Forward Holocaust gravesites identified in Latvia and Netherlands using contemporary technology
The grave in Latvia was located using technology created by American researchers
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News A Holocaust museum is launching in Fortnite. Can video games fight antisemitism?
Luc Bernard has spent 15 years trying to bring Holocaust education into the mainstream gaming space
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Culture She survived the Holocaust in Lublin and became a scholar and symbol of Jewish resilience and resistance
Nechama Tec's history of Jewish partisans in Belarus inspired the 2008 film 'Defiance'
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Culture In New York, migrants crowd into hotels seeking shelter — just like Jewish refugees did after WWII
At the Roosevelt, the Park West and the Belnord, echoes of Holocaust survivors' stories
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Fast Forward Rare video footage of Jews from train leaving Bergen-Belsen unearthed
In April 1945, American soldiers filmed Holocaust survivors who had been released from a train on their way to their death in a remote German village near the end of WWII
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Politics Trump campaign likens latest indictment to Nazism
The statement came in reaction to a set of federal charges over Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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Books This graphic novel illustrates the story of America’s first Jewish congregation — pirates and all
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Theater A new musical wonders: What happened to solidarity with English Jews?
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Fast Forward Support for Iran war among ‘connected’ US Jews falls again, poll finds
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Yiddish אַ פֿאָלקסטימלעכע שטימונג אויפֿן אַמסטערדאַמער ייִדיש־סימפּאָזיוםA folksy approach to this year’s Yiddish symposium in Amsterdam
דער שוועדישער פֿאַרלעגער ניקאָלײַ אָלניאַנסקי האָט דערציילט ווי ער האָט אָנגעהויבן אַרויסגעבן קינדערביכלעך אויף ייִדיש.